At the headquarters of The New York Times in midtown Manhattan on Thursday, employees held a picket-line demonstration with many donning red shirts and holding signs reading “New York Times Walks Out.”
“There is no New York Times without your labor,” Susan DeCarava, president of the NewsGuild of New York, told the crowd at the rally in front of the company’s building, which was held around 1 p.m.
The NewsGuild of New York is a collective union of media workers that includes those from the New York Times Guild, a union that represents New York Times employees.
“We won’t allow them to take advantage of your loyalty,” she said. “Without the work of our members of the NewsGuild of New York, without all the workers at The [New York] Times, this place is an empty building, it’s a blank page. And it’s a company that’s not living up to its values unless we demand that they do so.”…